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Nameless One said:
truly weird and surreal
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For an actually good pick, I highly recommend the Cat Soup OVA. It's one of my favorites and fits the attitude you want.


For a fun weirder pick that is quite obscure: Kemonozume. It does have a lot of sex and violence though, but good luck getting off to it. It's not a masterpiece, but it was fun.

If you wanna get really art house, Night on the Galactic Railroad. It's great, but very slow, so it really depends on what you like.

Personally slow artsy OVAs are my jam, but it's not something I'd make anyone else watch with me. There is a lot in the film scene that gets very neat and experimental.
 
ShitLurker said:
Kagurabachi
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It's pretty good. You might mistake it as a copy of Jujutsu Kaisen because it also has "sorcery", but give it a try. Gachiakuta is also recommendable because it deviates slightly from the standard Shonen formula. You'll see once you read everything up to the latest chapter. Let's just say that the main character isn't that much of an idiot and is actually learning faster than most.
 
Gorillion others said:
It's pretty good. You might mistake it as a copy of Jujutsu Kaisen because it also has "sorcery", but give it a try. Gachiakuta is also recommendable because it deviates slightly from the standard Shonen formula. You'll see once you read everything up to the latest chapter. Let's just say that the main character isn't that much of an idiot and is actually learning faster than most.
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Sorcery shit is the currently flavor if the season, so I'm not going to instantly write off a series because of that. I'll give it a go then. Oh, and Gachiakuta is the trash manga, yeah, I've seen people and youtubers hyping it up, it's in the "worth a look". Right now I want to read the evangelion mange to see how different it is from the anime though I'm kind of procastinating on that between rereading One Piece and Dandadan. I'll give the 2 in your post a go and see if anything gets my blood boiling more. Though both are in their infancy stage, so I expect them to be solid.
 
ShitLurker said:
Kagurabachi (is it worth reading? the whole sensation that it got memed into popularity has kept me away, but as you may have noticed, I'll read any slop if it has a good hook anyway...).
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Personally no, its just a generic shonen jump top hits compilation number 3 or 4. Reminds me a lot of Demon Slayer with the shit artstyle, the edgy protag reminds me a bit of Bleach/Gantz, the powers are somewhere between Demon Slayer and ATLA. I really hate this new crop of Jump titles from MHA onwards which are just generic shonens rehashing older shonen ideas. Its like Jump has an AI Shonen generator algorithm or maybe its just me being salty and grown up cause Jump went from City Hunter and FOTN to JJK and Demon Slayer. Shonen literally became a genre for children and teenagers, its just like capeshit now.
 
On a positive note, I am keeping up with Record of Ragnarok and it continues to deliver. It gets my blood pumping in a way that few other works of fiction can. It's a simple formula of fight scenes interspersed with flashbacks, but it's consistently effective at establishing stakes that complement the action. The end result is greater than the sum of its parts.

It really is a shame the netflix adaptation was so underwhelming.
 
Well, now that JJK is safely buried where it belongs, anybody else liking Kaiju No. 8 (manga and/or anime?

It reminds me of Guyver, but with the sharp corners filed off.
 
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After all these years, Grand Blue Dreaming is finally getting a second season.

Kimitake Yoshioka celebrated the news with this brand new drawing:

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The director, writer, character designer and chief animation writers from the first season will all return for the new season. Even though the date has yet to be announced, I’ve already caught up to the manga and it still has not lost its humor or touch. Plus, Kōhei and Ania are finally a couple, yet their respective friend groups know nothing about it. Meanwhile, the last chapter has Kōhei now researching ways on how to be romantic towards Ania, since his knowledge was all based on copious amounts of anime he watched.

Overall, I’m glad and can’t wait to see this anime continue. 🙂
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
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After all these years, Grand Blue Dreaming is finally getting a second season.

Kimitake Yoshioka celebrated the news with this brand new drawing:

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The director, writer, character designer and chief animation writers from the first season will all return for the new season. Even though the date has yet to be announced, I’ve already caught up to the manga and it still has not lost its humor or touch. Plus, Kōhei and Ania are finally a couple, yet their respective friend groups know nothing about it. Meanwhile, the last chapter has Kōhei now researching ways on how to be romantic towards Ania, since his knowledge was all based on copious amounts of anime he watched.

Overall, I’m glad and can’t wait to see this anime continue. 🙂
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I wonder if they will actually go fucking diving in this season.

Dont get me wrong, the show was funny and all but they are supposed to be a diving club. But all they did was get drunk and naked. Still funny, I am looking forward to season 2.
 
Abbadon's Gate said:
@Skyline

Did you know it would be incredibly terrible for Ruby's career if everyone knew her brother was a murderer? Never mind she just co-starred in a movie that heavily implied her own father was a murderer.
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Sorry. I assume Aqua has someone who will write that exact article to start things off, or else the media can very easily spin it the other way around, especially considering that Kamiki has a recording of Aqua saying he wants to get revenge. Stabbing himself then throwing himself off a cliff onto the sharp rocks below is questionable to say the least. And why was Kamiki just standing there? He's taller and likely stronger than Aqua, and since he has killed several people before I assume he doesn't flinch very easily. He could have used the moment Aqua stabbed himself either to kill him or to escape. At this point I'm just reading this as a weekly comedy show.

But I guess we got confirmation that Aqua will in fact end up with Kana in the end. We both know he is going to survive, though throwing everything away for revenge and dying in the process would have been a fitting end for him.
 
Man, with how MHA and JJK ended, I will heartily laugh when Black Clover manages a satisfying ending. Who knew getting time to breath and have a life would allow for better storytelling.
 
Skyline said:
At this point I'm just reading this as a weekly comedy show.
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Its very Season 8 game of thrones. I think my favorite part of the entire last chapter was Crow Girl monologuing on the beach. She didn't say anything particularly insightful, but by having her monologue on the beach it'll be preemptive justification for literal divine intervention when she pulls Aqua from the ocean.

Skyline said:
We both know he is going to survive, though throwing everything away for revenge and dying in the process would have been a fitting end for him.
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The worst part of all of this is that they'd already established he'd gotten his revenge, this new revenge is just the double down that exists for some reason.
 
Hey does anyone have a Torrent for Dragon ball Z Dub 4:3 resolution specifically the Dub where Linda Young as the voice of Frieza
 
Gorillion others said:
Loads of people are saying the ending is underwhelming or worse, but all it did was stick to what it intended to give us.
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What did it do in the end? Practically nothing happened throughout the whole story. I think what makes the ending so shitty is that it solidifies how done and apathetic Gege was towards his own series all along. At least Bleach and Naruto attempted to be consistent.

Btw, Gege literally admitted to have the intelligence of a middle schooler in the JJK character guide.
 
Pentex said:
Well, now that JJK is safely buried where it belongs, anybody else liking Kaiju No. 8 (manga and/or anime?

It reminds me of Guyver, but with the sharp corners filed off.
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Started strong, has been ass for a years or so. Monster 9 not fucking dying for the 5th time is AIDs and half the chapters are gigantic reaction shots. Also, having an adult man a sa protag has been absolutely wasted since outside of a few times, he behaves like a standard shounen protag.
Rykel22 said:
Man, with how MHA and JJK ended, I will heartily laugh when Black Clover manages a satisfying ending. Who knew getting time to breath and have a life would allow for better storytelling.
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I'm sure Black Clover will have a satisfying if safe ending since it never aspired to be anything beyond a standard shounen. They will beat big bad, have a party, close up some of the obvious pairings and maybe a page or 2 of 20 years later.

And though they are simple characters, I like a lot more the black bulls than anything not named Todo in JJK (though the dunamic between the main trio was definitely missed) and all of Deku's classmates.
 
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